Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023

9:30 am

Photo of Cormac DevlinCormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Separating that out, for some the guidance had changed and it was not possible to use some of the vaccines, which is fair enough. However, in terms of the time at which they were purchased, was the shelf life of those vaccines extremely short and is that why so many were lost? What was the other reason that so much was written off and not used?